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Prosser is an English-language surname, derived from a Welsh-language patronym. ==Origin== The English-language surname ''Prosser'' is considered to be a Welsh surname. The name originated as an Anglicisation of the Welsh-language ''ap Rhosier'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Learn about the family history of your surname ). For the surname ''Prosser'', this website cited: .〕 or ''ap Rosser'',〔.〕 both meaning ''son of Roger''. The English-language personal name ''Roger'' is derived from the Old French personal name ''Roger'', ''Rogier''. This personal name is of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ''hrōd'' ("fame") and ''gār'', ''gēr'' ("spear"). The Old French name was adopted by the Normans, and was introduced into Britain by them in the Middle Ages (replacing the Old English cognate ''Hrōðgār''). The name became one of the most popular masculine names in the Middle Ages, and lost popularity afterwards.〔.〕 Until the Tudor period Welsh names generally took the format X son of Y, or X daughter of Y. The Old Welsh word for son was ''map'', which later lost the initial letter to become ''ap''. Although some of the Welsh gentry began to adopt the English fashion for hereditary surnames even before the Act of Union between England and Wales in 1536, in general the Act marked the beginning of a gradual shift towards hereditary surnames in Wales that was not complete until the 18th century. In some cases ''ap'' was merged into the following personal name to create an hereditary name. So ''Ap Richard'' became Pritchard, ''ap Even'' became Bevan and ''ap Hugh'' emerged as Pugh. The shift from ''ap Rosser'' to Prosser is of this pattern, though the surname Rosser also occurs. The distribution of Prosser and Rosser in 1842-46 was strongly centred in south-east Wales, and largely absent from other parts of Wales.〔David Hey, ''Family Names and Family History'' (2000), pp. 91-4; T. J. Morgan and Prys Morgan, ''Welsh surnames'' (1985), pp. 13, 178.〕 Early examples of the surname include: * 1529 Richard ap Rosser was a party to two deeds relating to 'a mansion place called the Van' in Senghenydd.〔Wiltshire and Swindon Archives 436/16.〕 * 1556 Morgan Lewis ap Rosser was a party to a grant of land in Llywell, Co. Brecon.〔Powys County Archives B/D/ACA/1/001.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prosser (name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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